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Duration
30.05. - 31.10.2021
Location
Austrian Open-Air Museum Stübing
Curators
Michaela Steinböck-Köhler
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The exhibition spans an arc from the so-called farmer doctors and ‘all kinds of healing knowledge’ to forgotten household remedies, rural healing traditions and typical regional uses. Ancient knowledge about household remedies and folk medicine healing methods also accompany the events and educational programmes and thus offer a varied annual programme.
In the past, every farm and every chasuble had a home garden with vegetables, flowers, aromatic herbs and medicinal plants, which were also introduced to the farmers by the monasteries. Each farm studied the efficacy of the local herbs in detail in order to make teas, ointments or tinctures based on the ancient experiences of their ancestors. Women were the bearers of healing knowledge in the families. Healing knowledge was passed down from grandmother to mother, from generation to generation.
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